Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
There are 487 posts in this thread, and only 18 of them (3.7%) belong to the OP. Nearly every other post (most from new accounts) is either criticizing the OP or saying that content should be even harder. There is a resounding new consensus for FFXIV.

You all need to be prepared for what happens next. Because the next people you argue with in the FFXIV community won't be OP, it'll be among the rest of you. And you will continue to push people out until the "inner circle" gets smaller and smaller. The raid mechanics are not nearly as difficult as you all claim they are, and yet you're using someone else's wipe to boost your own egos. This is a very troubling development for the FFXIV community.
Losing those people is, genuinely, actually fine. If they won't learn for themselves, they dang well won't learn for others and very definitely won't respect the time being put in by other party members, and I'm more than happy to lose those players. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this way, and OP has already shown that they're willing to contemplate obstructing 7 other players' experience just so they don't have to learn for once in their life. There's a line between being casual and being a toxic casual. Casuals will step up to the challenge because it's fun to try and learn, toxic casuals are the ones whining perpetually about apparent difficulty and should by all means be weeded out. It's not like they don't retry in other games when they fail or get stuck, so why stop here?

EDIT: No. The raid mechanics aren't truly that hard, like you said. Which makes it all the more sad to see people whine about it and want SE to give us another expansion of uninspired content.